Letter from France: May 2013

Whether you’re a novice or seasoned traveller, France will steal your heart. Each month, Frederic – our French correspondent – gives us the low-down on what to see and do across the channel

The English seaside

Photographer Peter Williams celebrates the peculiar eccentricities and quintessential charms – from helter-skelters to lighthouses, pirates, palmists and Punch and Judy – of this cherished and rapidly changing English landscape

Department of Transport

From the website:

The Department for Transport’s aim is transport that works for everyone. This means a transport system which balances the needs of the economy, the environment and society.

New New York

The Big Apple has been mesmerising visitors for years. Its pleasures are eternal but the particulars of where to stay, eat and play are ever in flux. CD Traveller breaks out their little black book…

Cruising Down the Nile

One of the criticisms that visitors have to Egypt has been the way that some Nile cruise vessels dock. You think you might have a great view of the banks of the Nile. Yet in the morning you peer out and you see another Nile cruise ship moored next to you. And another. And another. Sometimes as many as 6 can be tied up to each other and your view of the majestic heritage is non-existent.

Land of Dreams

On the final day of our America week, we thought we’d share with you the lyrics to Land of Dreams – a themesong written and sung by Roseanne Cash, daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash, with the aim of inviting visitors to “discover this land, like never before”

Travel talk: where the experts holiday

In the first of a new series, CD-Traveller spoke to Bob Schumacher, Senior Director UK and Ireland at Continental Airlines – who recently unveiled its new fully flat-bed Business First seat – about the three C’s in his life: Canada, cruising and, of course, Continental Airlines